"A man sits behind a cloth-covered table, a prey to demons and to little figures enacting scenes that madden, urging to suicide and divorce. He clutches his head, his elbow resting on a book, Werter [cf. BM Satires 7765]; his right fist is on a letter signed your sincere Friend -- Anonymous. One tiny demon whispers in his ear, another runs up his arm holding a pair of spectacles; both have reindeer-antlers. At his right hand a pistol, with arms, legs, and face, bows invitingly. At his left hand a fat pugnacious barrister proffers a paper: Damages 1000; another, simian, and with barbed tail, clambers up the table-cloth towards him. A demon lies flat on the table, holding the rope by which a little man hangs himself, having just kicked away a stool. Under a chair (left) an officer in dandified uniform embraces a woman; the same woman, wearing a hat, clambers down a rope-ladder from the back of a chair (right) towards her lover who stands below extending his arms; a little watchman in the shadow of the table, holding his lantern, watches them with a cynical grin. On the chimneypiece is a duel scene: the officer fires a pistol killing his opponent, the jealous man. Pictures on the wall: Horn Fair, a fair scene, horns and antlers displayed on poles; Othello smothering Desdemona. This hangs above an oval miniature of a lady. Books (on the table) are The Revenge [E. Young, 1721]; (on the floor) Don Juan and The Cuckoo Song Book."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., 'Crowquill' was a psuedonym used jointly by Charles Robert Forrester and Alfred Henry Forrester. Cf. British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms -- Jealousy -- Demons -- Torment --Pistol -- Suicide -- Death -- Seduction -- Pictures amplify subject., and Watermark: 1825.
Publisher:
Pubd. November 1st., 1825 by S. Knight, Sweetings Alley, Ryl. X'Change
Title from caption below image., Date of publication taken from date following artist's attriubtion., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: French fashion -- Young woman -- Curtains -- Vases., and Watermark: 1825.
Publisher:
Published by J. Didsbury, 22 Southampton Street, Covent Garden
A gentleman on the doorstop of a fashionable townhouse is turned away by a black footman in livery who tells him, "Massa not at home!" Two street vendors approach from behind, one of whom offers him tankard with a head of foam and the other further in the distance carries a tray of steaming plates. To the left is a lamp post
Alternative Title:
Disappointed dinner hunter
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1825.
Publisher:
Published by J.L. Marks, 17 Artillery Street, Bishopgate
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Couples -- Dogs -- Carriages -- City street life.
Title from caption below image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by J.L. Marks, Artillery Street, Bishopgate
A monkey dressed in a Roman-style tunic holds a sword over his head, held in his right hand. In his left he grasps a cat. Over his shoulders is a lion's pelt
Description:
Title from caption below image., Date of publication based on active date of S. Gans., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1825 [also a trimmed textual fragment].
Publisher:
Published by S. Gans, 22 Southampton St. (Strand) and Printed by N. Jones, 66 St. Martins Lane
